From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Ending development of libsocket
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On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 21:13:12 +0000, Richard Dawe
<rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>Yes, exactly. AFAIK Windows ME implements its networking drivers as DLLs
>rather VxDs. I suspect that libsocket will not work it.
>
>Damian Yerrick, did you test libsocket with Windows ME? I sent you test
>programs a while back, but got no response. Did you receive my test
>programs?

I didn't get them; I didn't have networking set up on the box yet.
Could you please resend them to d_yerzigrick AT hotzigmail DOT com
(take off every zig)?

>IPv6 is not available for Windows '9x. Microsoft is unlikely to do IPv6

Because it presumably wants users to upgrade from 9x to NT-based
systems when the world switches from IPv4 to IPv6.

>> The case with Windows NT is much clearer, once the CygWin team gets its
>> version of Unix sockets to work we can make a simple stub library tthat
>> calls that implementation.
>
>How are they implementing Unix domain sockets?

Cygwin is GPL; download the source.

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